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[Sindi Keesan <keesan AT iamjlamb.com>]

On Wed, 28 Jan 2004, Woonsig wrote:

> Sindi.
> 
> I tried it and seems like it is better than pico.

> Especially, pico doesn't work well at telnet window but e3 does. I've added 
> telnet to my ramdrive BL.

I thought telnet already came with ramdrive bl2 (but not ftp).  I don't 
understand about a telnet window - I don't see any windows with BL2 
RAMdrive version.  Please explain.  When I telnet I use the software on 
the other computer, not the pico or e3 on my own computer.  

> You may want to say that gzip,chmod,rm links need to be created in /bin 
> directory if ramdrive version of BL is running.
> Thanks.
> 
> Regards,
> Woonsig
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Sindi Keesan" <keesan AT iamjlamb.com>
> To: <baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2004 4:10 AM
> Subject: [BL] e3 9K text editor for BL2 (and BL1?)
> 
> 
> > Installpkg e3.tgz should put into 
> > 
> > /usr/local/bin/e3 and e3pi  - e3 - wordstar emulation   e3pi- pico
> > /usr/local/doc/e3/e3.hmtl   and README and ChangeLog
> > /usr/bin/tail  - I added this from txtutils.tgz because it is required
> > 
> > 21K .tgz file, 9K executable which does not spell check, but unlike the 
> > 48K Nano (Pico reduced) it moves one word at a time forward and backward, 
> > and it goes to start and end of file.  Pico drives me crazy because it 
> > does not.
> > 
> > E3 is written in assembler language, has no library dependencies, and 
> > ought to work in BL1 as well as BL2 and maybe BL3.  Even with tail added 
> > it is smaller than Nano by 15K (only 9 + 24K).  It includes some sort of 
> > calculator, which I don't think comes with the RAMdisk versions.
> > 
> > Please try it out and vote whether to include it in BL3 and in future 
> > BL2s.
> > 
> 
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